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Drawmer Sixties Series
Sales of Drawmer Sixties Series 1960, 1961, 1968, and 1969
at Sweetwave Audio. For assistance, call us at 1-877-258-0563.
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Drawmer
1960 Tube Compressor & Mic Preamplifier |
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1960 Two Channel Tube Compressor, Mic Preamp and Active DI
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1960 combines the old fashioned slow, dark retro compressor sound
combined with low noise solid state mic preamps with phantom power,
and an auxiliary instrument direct input with tone controls, a
brightness switch, and a tube output stage. Tubes abound, with
the ability to overdrive any of the tube stages (or not) to provide
a wide range of control from a clean sound to a hefty amount of
classic tube distortion. The 1960 is at home in both the studio
and in the rack of a performing musician.
Each of the two channels has separate mic and line level balanced
inputs on XLR connectors, well suited for any professional installation.
The line input is a unity gain buffer, while the mic input provides
adjustable gain over the range of 0 to 60 dB. The Auxiliary DI
input has a medium-high input impedance of 470 KO to provide a
good match for most magnetic instrument pickups. The compressor
is a "soft knee" design with switch-selectable attack and release
times, reminiscent of the classic compressors of the 1960's era.
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| Drawmer 1960 Tube Compressor & Mic Preamplifier |
$2999.00 |
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Drawmer
1961 Vacuum Tube Equalizer |
The 1961 is a unique equalizer. Its four bands are fully parametric,
offering a boost or cut of up to 18 dB in four overlapping frequency
ranges centered from 20 Hz to 25 kHz. Each equalizer section has
a "Q" control to adjust the bandwidth from a gentle 3 octaves to
a businesslike 1/3 octave. Each section can be individually bypassed,
or the entire equalizer can be bypassed leaving just the tube section
for coloration, and allowing to quickly A/B the effect of the dialed-in
equalization.
A variable input gain with a range of -20 to +20 dB allows for
driving the tube equalizer stages to just the right amount of sweetness
from any line level input source. A separate tube output section
provides soft clipping when overdriven, with the onset of clipping
and outright overload being indicated by a pair of LEDs. These
LEDs, combined with an LED input level meter allow visual confirmation
of what your ears are telling you.
Like the equalizers used in mastering consoles, the 1961 has multi-position
rotary switches to select the center frequencies rather than continuous
controls. This allows precise resetting as well as providing more
accurate filter design. The equalizer is rounded out with adjustable
high pass and low pass filters. This is a sweetening EQ rather
than a surgical EQ, and should be used accordingly.
The 1961 combined with the 1960 makes a great classic sounding
front end for recording,
or the 1961 alone is ideal for final EQ touches in mastering.
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| Drawmer 1961 Vacuum Tube Equalizer |
$2999.00 |
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Drawmer
1968 2-Channel Compressor (Mercenary Edition) |
Understanding dynamics is the successful mix engineer's most
vital skill. Understanding how to build dynamics processors is
a skill no one has performed more successfully over the last
twenty years than Ivor Drawmer. Thousands upon thousands of Drawmer
units are still in play across the globe. Now Ivor Drawmer and
Fletcher of Mercenary Audio play the analog ace card in a vertible
digital world: The 1968 Mercenary Edition jFET Valve Compressor.
Combining
new ideas with vintage ones, the 1968ME puts a level of performance
in your rack that is beyond your expectations. Two channels of
analog compression can be used across the stereo buss independently.
jFET circuitry enables the beautiful dynamic control sought after
in so many vintage units. Automatic speed functions make the
user an instant expert. Easy to read multifunction VU meters
and side chain listen make setup straightforward. Valve gain
output stages provide the ability to explore "clean" to "thick" character
ranges in one device. The "big" function offers radically different
behaviors in stereo or tracking mode. In just 1U, Drawmer delivers
a "go-to" compressor
that is unequalled by any plug-in.
The 1968ME satisfies a variety of live as well as recording and
broadcast studio applications when inserted into the signal path.
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| Drawmer 1968 2-Channel Compressor (Mercenary Edition) |
$1999.00 |
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Drawmer
1969 Vacuum Tube Compressor Pre-Amp |
The Drawmer 1960 has been a well established staple of thousands
of installations worldwide for many years, respected for its
classic, warm and dark sound. The 1969, while largely a new design,
builds on the reputation of the 1960, giving it a more contemporary
clean and silky sound, adding a few new features, and improving
its ease of use as a stereo compressor. It builds on the modern
tracking concept of following a clean and smooth preamp with
an electro-optical or FET compressor with a tube output stage
for smoothing and warmth. A modern solid state preamp with up
to 66 dB of gain is followed by a soft knee FET compressor with
adjustable attack and release times designed "by ear" to give
similar response as the famed Fairchild 670 mastering compressor.
A tube path in the compressor section provides warmth that's
often the primary reason for using a vintage tube compressor
in the signal chain.
The two channels can be linked for stereo operation so that
the same amount of gain reduction is applied to both channels
together to avoid shifting of the center image. A special "Big" link
mode prevents a powerful low frequency instrument such as a bass
or kick drum to dominate the gain reduction action on a full
mix and ducking the most audible portion of the spectrum in time
with the drum.
The Auxiliary input offers a very high impedance (2 MO) which
is suitable for any instrument pickup including piezoelectric
acoustic pickups. A basic bass/treble equalizer and bright switch
provide controls typical of an instrument amplifier, while adjustment
of the Auxiliary input gain control can be used to overdrive
the tube circuit in the Auxiliary section.
A polarity inversion ("phase reverse") switch and 50/100 Hz
low cut filter and switchable phantom power rounds out each channel.
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| Drawmer 1969 Vacuum Tube Compressor Pre-Amp |
$3349.00 |
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